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Paradiso Mods (paradisomod) wrote in paradisolog,
@ 2016-08-13 18:08:00

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!bonfire, cisco ramon (ramonnoodles), natasha romanoff (somebodyseyes), ~briseis (prizeofachilles), ~eddie castile (willfreakout), ~finnick odair (dist4_finnick), ~jaime vegas (jaimevegas), ~lailah (lailah_night), ~luke skywalker (luke_skywalker), ~lustre (lustrare), ~malia tate (wantsherfurcoat), ~number eight (notinorder), ~peter parker (the_spider_man)

We haven't had a story telling bonfire in a while. So tonight's post will be 1000 points for a starter that tells a cultural story. This can be something personal or something general about your character's world.

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Natasha and OTA

somebodyseyes
2016-08-13 07:25 pm UTC (link)

The last time there had been a story telling bonfire, Natasha had not attended. She hadn't been on the island very long and was still trying to find her way. Not to mention the fact that she didn't feel the need to tell anyone her own personal story.

Tonight though she decided to go but instead of a personal story, she chose to share one of her favorite folk stories from home. The story of
The Firebird. She was sure she'd left out a few details but when she was done she took a breath and glanced around the group gathered at the bonfire. "So that's my story," she said. "it's not about me but I do have red hair so maybe that counts for something."

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Natasha and Eight

notinorder
2016-08-14 03:56 am UTC (link)

Eight listened to the story in silence. He had always loved stories, perhaps because they were all that he had left from home. But the ending wasn't quite what he expected, and actually kind of blinked a little in surprise. It seemed to him that Prince Ivan had been rather terrible and selfish, and that he hadn't necessarily deserved a happy ending.

But stories were what they were, and they certainly said something about both the author and the teller.

"Do you see yourself in that story at all?" He asked. Because he had a feeling it could be incredibly telling if she did.

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Natasha and Eight

somebodyseyes
2016-08-14 05:30 pm UTC (link)

She sat for a moment, surprised at his question. "I've never thought about it," she said. "in some ways I can identify with the Firebird. It really didn't have any freedom, it was captured and used to make others happy. I went through a time in my life when I was trapped, not to make others happy but to ...." she didn't want to say kill them although that was what she had done. "make their lives miserable."

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	Natasha and Eight notinorder 2016-08-14 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	A big part of her life had been making people unhappy? That definitely didn't sound like a good thing. "Is that why you came here, then? So that you could make people happy for a change?" It made perfect sense to him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Natasha and Eight

somebodyseyes
2016-08-14 07:23 pm UTC (link)

"I should probably rephrase that," she said. "I didn't have a choice in what I did. I feel like I have to spend my life making up for that and it's not easy." It was why she'd gone to work for SHIELD, become an Avenger, worked with Nick Fury. She had to atone for what she'd done. Even if that was impossible.

"I came here to try and make a better place, I guess. And Arva offered me a chance at something that I couldn't have a home so I came here. I'm glad I did." While she was no closer to being a mother, she was learning how to exist in a world where she didn't have to fight, she didn't have to worry or wonder what might be sneaking up behind her. It was peaceful and it surprised Natasha how much she enjoyed it.

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Jaime and OTA

jaimevegas
2016-08-13 07:33 pm UTC (link)

Jaime liked these bonfires. She liked meeting the people here with her and she loved the conversations that could come up. Tonight was a story night, however, and she leaned back to think about it for a few minutes. When her turn came up she smiled and started to tell one of her favorite little stories.

She recited the short tale of the Heron and the Hummingbird, a good ole Georgia folklore tale. "These are the kind of things I grew up with." she said in explination.

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Jaime and Eddie

willfreakout
2016-08-14 04:04 am UTC (link)

It was a cute little story, Eddie thought. He'd always loved the stories that explained the world around them...stories that the world had turned to before science provided more accurate - but far more mundane - explanations. There was so much more color in thinking of the birds as creatures who had won a race that would define their existence than it was to think of them simply in having evolved that way. The world knew so much, but he couldn't help but wonder if it had lost much, as well.

When Jaime was done with her story, he looked up at her and clapped politely. He had stories of his own, but really didn't feel like telling them. They all led back to things that he'd come here to forget.

"So where'd you grow up?" He asked.

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jaimevegas
2016-08-17 09:21 am UTC (link)

"Oh the South mainly. But we wandered around for pagents and stuff, but mostly the South." Jaime smiled warmly. She tucked a red stand behind her ear and grinned a bit.

"my grandmother liked to pass on those kinds of tales. My mother didn't like it much." But that was mostly because she hadn't wanted Jaime to follow in her grandmother's footsteps. Too bad she did anyways."what about you?"

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	Re: Jaime and Eddie, sorry had no Wi-Fi willfreakout 2016-08-17 12:31 pm UTC (link)
	"Me? I'm from Iowa. Grew up in Montana. Nothing terribly interesting. Pretty much the only thing you need to know about me is that I'm not good around a lot of people." Obviously. He'd never been anywhere as big as Spokane, and he would be very glad never to be anywhere like that again. Ever. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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jaimevegas
2016-08-18 08:24 pm UTC (link)

"Oh Iowa, I've been there a few times. Montana too. They're interesting places." a lot of ghosts had followed her through most of the states she'd been to, though. So her kind of interesting might be a little different.

"Ah well, honey, I'm good around lots of people and I can be that way for just about all of us." she grinned wickedly. "I grew up on stage and have my own TV show and did live tours, too."

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Luke & OTA

forcepowers
2016-08-14 03:42 am UTC (link)

Luke had attended the bonfires as often as possible. He hadn't actually told his story at one of them before. He wasn't sure if people would be interested. Then he learned that he was actually famous and that most people knew about him and his story. While disturbing he was growing used to it now.

He listened to the two stories that were told, intrigued by it before piping up. "Would people actually be interested in hearing my story or do all of you know it so well that there's no point?" he asked. "I still find it incredibly creepy though that you all know me," he said with a shrug.

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Luke & Briseis

prizeofachilles
2016-08-14 04:07 am UTC (link)

"I'd like to hear your story," Bri said. The others may have known it well, but coming from a time when all theater was still live, she had no idea about his movies, or even what a movie really was.

She was also eager to learn about the other people who lived here, since they only had each other both as company, and for survival. Despite the fact she's slept with Luke, she realized that she didn't really know that much about him.

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Malia and OTA

wantsherfurcoat
2016-08-14 02:14 pm UTC (link)

Unlike many of them, Malia wasn't shy about telling her story. She wasn't afraid to tell the people here about the things that had happened to her because she wasn't ashamed, and these were the people she was going to spend the rest of her life with. Maybe. So she wanted them to know her.

She stood before the fire, watching it curiously and a little nervously.

"I'm going to tell you the story of how I met the love of my life," she said simply. "It's kind of weird, but it's true. So I'd been living in the woods for years stuck in coyote form. Stiles and Scott figured that out and found me, and managed to change me back into a person. They thought they were doing me this huge favor even though I really didn't want them to do it at all. I liked being a coyote. It was safe. I was used to it. I didn't have to do math." She paused. "Anyway, they changed me back and I tried to explain to my father - my adopted father - what had happened and he didn't believe me. He thought I was crazy, so he sent me to Eichen House, which is the insane asylum in Beacon Hills. That place sucked. Well, a few days after I got there, Stiles showed up. He was possessed by an evil Japanese fox demon thingy and thought it would be safer there, even though it wasn't. But that's another story. After I punched him in the face for assuming that he knew what was best for me, we worked together and figured out a way to get into the basement because there was information there that we wanted to learn about the Nogitsune. We ended up on a couch and one thing led to another and yeah, that was both of our first times."

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Malia and Finnick

dist4_finnick
2016-08-14 04:46 pm UTC (link)

The baby was due in two weeks. And of course the due date was just an estimate. The baby could come before then. In fact it could almost be any day now, a thought which made Finnick almost dizzy with anxiety, so he pushed it away. He almost hadn't come to the bonfire, wanting to stay close to Chloe in case she needed him, but they had the comm bracelets so he was always only a call away.

Plus, the bonfires were important. They made their community stronger, which was important to Finnick, so he made a point of going.

He wandered around and mingled a bit, listening to various people tell their stories, until he heard Malia's. It was a surprisingly sweet story about her and Stiles, but it still had that edge she always had. He smiled when he heard how she had punched Stiles, but then later had sex with him. That was Malia in a nutshell, he thought.

He sat down beside her, smiling. "That's a really nice story. I never knew you and Stiles met in an asylum."

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Malia and Finnick

wantsherfurcoat
2016-08-14 04:54 pm UTC (link)

"Well, I mean, technically we met when Scott changed me back in the woods. But that's when we really got go know each other yeah." People had told her before that maybe she shouldn't be so open about that, and it was really something that she didn't understand. Why not be open?

Living eight years in the woods also meant that she didn't have the stigma surrounding mental illness that humans did. They'd been sick. They'd gone to the asylum until things had gotten better, then she'd left. How was that any different than going to a regular hospital? Malia didn't understand.

"It was really wonderful if it hadn't been so awful too. Just like...a few moments after we finished, the Nogitsune got Stiles again."

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Malia and Finnick

dist4_finnick
2016-08-14 06:12 pm UTC (link)

They did have a stigma against mental illness in District 4, and they also had very limited ways to treat it. Basically the family just dealt with it and the person with the problem either got better or not. If they got bad enough that they were a serious danger to others they were sometimes sent away...and usually never seen again.

But none of that had much to do with how Finnick related to Malia's story. He knew that she wasn't mentally ill. She just wasn't used to being human.

He also didn't really understand about the Nogitsune. Although they were supernatural, the werewolves here were a physical phenomenon, something he could see with his own eyes. Possession by a spirit was something else.

"Were you in love with him from the start?"

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Malia and Finnick

wantsherfurcoat
2016-08-14 06:20 pm UTC (link)

"No," she said. "Actually at first I hated him and wanted him to die. He'd made me back into a human and made me face things that I didn't want to face. That wasn't cool. Not even a little. But then we got to know each other a little better, and realized kind of that he was just stupid, that he hadn't meant to hurt anyone. And he was sweet. And I started to kind of like him, you know? And then I wanted to see what sex was like and he was willing."

She shrugged.

"I didn't start loving him for a long time."